With Duane Magee, Patient

Voice of The Patient

The lunch time session at today’s Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Stakeholder’s Meeting included the voice of the patient, in this case a person who is a school principal. The quote in the title of the post is just an example of how the conversation changes when the patient voice is included. We stop thinking about health care as an end and more about life goals, with health care as a means.

Kudos to the meeting organizers for explicitly including the patient voice.

(presentations online here)

Paul Grundy, MD - “Think huge”

Purchaser guide - there have been many of these, but the first time one prepared with consumers and providers

Health Information Technology - help educate, advocate, demonstrate around PCMH the technology that will be necessary to help physicians make the transformation

Panel - What Does it Cost to Become a Patient Centered Medical Home?

Bob Berenson, MD, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute

“A good medical home”- patient with superficial phlebitis treated via one office visit, 6 phone calls, 6 e-mails, including hematologic consultation, one reimbursement for in-office care

Julia Pillsbury, DO, Alternate RUC Representative, American Academy of Pediatrics

New G codes for Medical Home-type work. Crosswalked to currently existing codes, some subsume current G codes, some do not. Tier 1, 2, and 3, between 6.5 to 9.2 minutes per patient per month, may be around $50/member/month.

Patient Partnership

Sabrina Corlette, Director of Health Policy, The National Partnership for Women and Families

Grant from the Wellpoint Foundation to introduce consumer advocates to PCMH and involve them and shaping it. Environmental scan, Focus Groups, Develop consumer/patient principles

Debbie Peikes, Ph.D., Mathematica Policy Research

We should involve patients and providers in primary care assignment, using claims retrospectively is expedient perhaps but has difficulties

As the title says, my Internet holiday is complete. It was as fun as being in the cloud, to be sure. I’ll be back to regular publishing now, and comments and pings are turned back on.

Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Washington, DC

I’m resuming life in the cloud by attending the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative Stakeholders Working Meeting, here in Washington, DC. I hope to post updates throughout the day - we are all fortunate that this group operates with an impressive level of openness and interest in collaboration (just as its name implies). The agenda and materials are online for others to peruse.

By the way, here’s what an Internet Holiday looks like.